On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Konrad Piascik <kpias...@rim.com> wrote: > It is possible to keep linear history with git. This just requires you to > fast forward and rebase before pushing.
But can you enforce in the server? To avoid people to push it by mistake? > Konrad > Sent from my BlackBerry on the Rogers Wireless Network > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carlos Garcia Campos [mailto:carlo...@webkit.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:27 PM > To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> > Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Moving to Git? > > El jue, 08-03-2012 a las 14:10 -0300, Alexis Menard escribió: >> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Ashod Nakashian <ashodnakash...@yahoo.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> In the light of discovering that some SVN scripts have fallen behind in >> >> terms of maintenance[1] and WebKit's strong Git support and >> >> infrastructure, >> >> against my better judgement, I'd like to distract you from being >> >> productive >> >> by bringing up this topic (again). >> >> >> >> The wiki page of the same name[2] was created 3 years ago and hardly >> >> updated since[3]. I know we're all busy with more important things, but >> >> IMHO >> >> I think we can at least update the wiki and perhaps vote on when/how we >> >> should do the eventual transition. >> >> >> >> I understand that while this type of work isn't necessarily very >> >> productive, maintaining two repositories and sets of scripts (with their >> >> docs and issues) has a very real cost as well. I'm proposing we reevaluate >> >> the situation and act accordingly. >> > >> > >> > Re-evaluating the situation is good, but I'm still opposed. >> >> I don't use svn but the only benefit I see of WebKit using svn is the >> linear history, clean, easy to read and to explore. Git repos tend to >> have merging commits a lot and it leads to make bisecting/history >> browsing harder (my taste). > > I agree about merging commits, but I think it's possible to enforce all > merges to be fast-forward and without merging commits. In general > browsing git history is easier and cleaner than svn, and more important > it's much faster (my taste :-P) > >> Then for everything else I use git and its power locally. > > I would be more than happy with the switch :-) > > -- > Carlos Garcia Campos > http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3 > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > This transmission (including any attachments) may contain confidential > information, privileged material (including material protected by the > solicitor-client or other applicable privileges), or constitute non-public > information. Any use of this information by anyone other than the intended > recipient is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, > please immediately reply to the sender and delete this information from your > system. Use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this > transmission by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev -- Alexis Menard (darktears) Software Engineer INdT Recife Brazil _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
